nexium

[maryneimetz12]

my insurence does not pay for brand Nexium. Only brand Nexium works. The company who makes Nexium will ok brand if I have a rejection from my Ins. Co. I called my Ins. co and they said that the do not send papers out that they do not pay for brands. How can I resolved this problem?
thank you
mary


This discussion is related to Nexium and Prilosec.

[AlphaOmega1010]

Nexium is better.  Without Nexium my ulcerated esophagus would never have healed.  In fact, I was taking 2  40 mg doses per day and Nexium is not ordinary omniprazole it is a derivitized/substitutes omniprazole and it does function differently.  

Nexium does spend a lot of money advertizing it as an "alternative."  Then they back it up by giving you a card on their site and regardless of insurance coverage, if you use the card, no matter how much the doctor prescribes you, your cost is $18.00 for the entire number of pills.  In my case that is 60/month for $18.00 and that is way more than my insurance company pays.  If I were to use my insurance the cost would have been $30.00/per 30 pills and they would not approve the 60 without a specialist doing a peer-to-peer.


Far better off using the company's discount card and mine is good through Decmebr 17,2013.

[caregiver222]

Unfortunately empirical evidence suggests that on-balance patients actually do better on the older generation of proton pump inhibiters.

I am not suggesting you are fibbing, but Nexium spends lots of advertising dollars to convince patients that their Brand name is somehow superior to ordinary omniprazole.

Nexium is a varient of an older out-of-patent drug that does the same thing. The problem is not resolvable, unfortunately.